Football is, no doubt, the greatest sport in the world. The aggressiveness attached to it is phenomenal, and the emotions a fan can feel while watching a football game are just incomparable.
The quality and appeal of the sport leads to a huge fan base, and, as in any other thing of such dimension, a few junkies, who basically live to follow/play/discuss/write about the game.
So when the football season is over, these football junkies enter a series of steps that guide their lives emotionally through the next eight months.
Step One—Denial
When the Super Bowl ends, these junkies are usually in a frenzy of adrenaline that keeps them from realizing that football season is over, and they will have to wait eight months for the NFL to start again.
On Monday morning, when they wake up and avoid facing that tough fact, instead fooling themselves by thinking that the Pro Bowl is still to come, and therefore football is not over yet.
This step ends usually midway through the Pro Bowl, when they realize this game is worth nothing and they indeed have to wait eight months to watch real football again.
Step Two—Anger
Once football junkies accept the fact there's “no football for the next semester,” a sense of sadness and awareness take over. At first they get nostalgic over the season that just came to an end, but past a few weeks, the anger starts to take over.
The absence of football is just too much to take. This is usually the time when these guys start tackling random people. Like “Hi honey, I missed you so much... BOOM!!” the girlfriend is down.
These guys get so desperate that they even try to watch Arena Football, but this only irritates them more, and the tackling of random people reaches its peak.
This step usually comes to an end around the start of the free agency period.
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